drunk synonyms and antonyms | FreeDict Thesaurus

Synonyms

Everyday swaps

Common words most readers know — safe in any writing.

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Less common

Still standard English, but they carry more weight.

intoxicated merry blasted bombed bottled canned disguised drunken elevated flush fried glorious hammered impaired lash lit mashed mortal Oliver polluted ripe ripped screwed slammed smashed sprung stoned tuned twisted wrecked

Rare, literary or technical

Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.

tipsy under the influence Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bibacious bevvied bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blewed blind drunk blitzed blootered blottoed bosky Brahms Brahms and Liszt budgy bungfu bungalowed burlin' clobbered corned cocked crapulous cockeyed crocked cup-shot cup-shotten dead drunk drunk as a piper drunked up ebriated ebriose elephant's elephant's trunk fap fershnickered floored flooey flushed flustered fluted fluthered feeling no pain fou four sheets in the wind frosted fuddled fuzzy-headed fuzzy-minded gassed gattered gee-eyed gesuip ginned gished groggified groggy half polluted half cut half lit half seas over have drink taken have the sun in one's eyes hazed high as a Georgia pine high as a kite hog-whimpering honkers hooched up hooted hoovered hosed how came you so in liquor in one's altitudes in the bag in one's cups in the drink inebriate inebriated inebrious insober inter pocula insobrietous jaked jarred juiced juiced up kaylied kettled kisky lamped langered langers larruped lashed lathered legless liquored up liquory looped loopy lubed lubricated lubed up lushed mabok mad with it maggot maggoted maudlin medicated messed up monged Mozart and Liszt mortalled muddled mullered muggy munted muzzy MWI nappy newted nimptopsical obfuscated off one's box obliviated off one's head off one's tits oiled oiled up Oliver Twist on the ran tan ossified out of one's box out of it out of one's face out of one's head out of sight overrefreshed overtaken paralytic parlatic pickled pie-eyed pixilated plastered ploughed plowed potshot pounded potted primed puggled quisby raddled rat-arsed ratted razzled rubbered sauced sauced up scammered schloshed schnockered scuttered sewed up shedded shellacked shicker shickered skunked slarmied slizzard sloppy drunk sloshed snookered snockered snozzled snuffy soaken soshed sodden sotted souped-up soused sozzled sozzly spannered spanceled spiffed splashed spongy squiffed steamboats stewed stinking stinko stoated stonkered stotious strut swacked tanked tanked up temulent temulentive three sheets in the wind three sheets to the wind throwed tight as a tick tilted tippled tired and emotional toasted top-heavy top-heavy with drink toping trashed wastey wazzed wazzocked well-oiled wellied whittled withered woozy wobbly worse for liquor worse for wear zoned zonked zooted zorched zotzed

Antonyms

abstemious clean clearheaded sober on the wagon sober as a judge teetotal

How to use drunk

The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.

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The noun use can be blunt or unkind — "an alcoholic" or "a heavy drinker" is more neutral.

Etymology

The past participle of "drink," from Old English druncen — the same root behind "drunken."

Full origin of drunk →

Frequently asked questions

What does “drunk” mean?

The word “drunk” means impaired by drinking too much alcohol. In plain terms, being under the strong influence of alcohol; also used as a noun for someone in that state or who drinks heavily.

How do you pronounce “drunk”?

“Drunk” is pronounced druhngk (/dɹʌŋk/ in IPA).

How do you use “drunk” in a sentence?

Here is “drunk” used in a sentence: “He was too drunk to drive home safely.”

What is another word for “drunk”?

Words with a similar meaning to “drunk” include Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed and a sheet in the wind.

What is the opposite of “drunk”?

The opposite of “drunk” — its antonyms — are abstemious, clean, clearheaded, sober and on the wagon.

What part of speech is “drunk”?

Depending on how it is used, “drunk” can be an adjective and a noun.

Where does the word “drunk” come from?

The word “drunk” comes from Old English. The past participle of "drink," from Old English druncen — the same root behind "drunken.".

Is “drunk” a common word?

“Drunk” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the B1 level.

What is the difference between drunk and drank?

"Drank" is the simple past tense of "drink" — "she drank the water." "Drunk" is the past participle, used with "have" — "she has drunk the water" — and also works as an adjective meaning impaired by alcohol: "he was drunk." Saying "I drunk it" is a common but nonstandard mistake.

Is drunk a formal or informal word?

"Drunk" is a plain, direct, everyday word rather than a formal one. In formal, legal, or medical writing you will more often see "intoxicated" or "under the influence." Everyday speech offers many casual alternatives too, such as "tipsy" for mildly affected. "Drunk" sits comfortably in the neutral middle.

What is the difference between drunk and tipsy?

Both describe the effects of alcohol, but they differ in degree. "Tipsy" suggests a mild, early stage — slightly light-headed or giddy after a drink or two. "Drunk" describes a stronger state, where speech, balance, and judgement are noticeably impaired. Tipsy is the gentler, more light-hearted of the two.

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